Johnny Bairstow (114 of 56 balls) and David Warner (100 of 55 balls) produced blistering knocks to lift Sunrisers Hyderabad to a massive total of 231 for 2 against Royal Challengers Bangalore in an IPL match at Hyderabad, today. Bairstow and Warner wreaked havoc at the RCB bowlers to get to their blistering hundreds.
Bairstow scored 114 while comeback-man Warner remained unbeaten on exact 100 to break the record for the highest opening partnership in IPL. RCB are yet to win a match this season.
Only second time in IPL history that two batsmen (Warner and Barstow) have scored tons in the same innings. Kohli and De Villiers did it for RCB against Gujarat Lions in 2016.
Yet again proving their worth with the willow, the best opening pair in this season's IPL so far, David Warner and Johnny Bairstow became the first pair to stitch three consecutive 100+ partnerships in the Indian Premier League.
For SRH, Bairstow and Warner came to the crease to open and Moeen Ali started with the ball for RCB. The opening duo gave a brilliant start to their team by attaining a 50-run-partnership.At the end of powerplay, Warner and Bairstow were playing with superb controlled aggression.
Bairstow scored his first IPL fifty in just 28 balls and was making runs much quicker than Warner. Bairstow punished young Prayas by smashing him over the fence and then hit back to back boundaries to bring up his half-century. Not only that, Johnny Bairstow smashed de Grandhomme for back-to-back sixes in the 10th over.
It was star India spinner Chahal who got the big wicket for RCB, ending Bairstow's outstanding 114-runs knock. After Bairstow, came in the hard-hitting Vijay Shankar (9 runs) who hit the ball straight down the ground for a huge 94 meter six, but his innings was short lived.
16 years and 157 days old, Prayas Ray Barman became the youngest player to play an IPL match when he was handed debut by Royal Challengers Bangalore, but proved to be very expensive as he leaked a lot of runs.
Barman at 16 years and 157 days beat Afghanistan's Mujeeb Ur Rahaman's record who had played his first IPL game when he was 17 years and 11 days old. Barman, who shone brightly for Bengal in the domestic season, was brought into the side in place of right-arm fast bowler Navdeep Saini
Teams:
RCB: Parthiv Patel(w), Moeen Ali, Virat Kohli(c), AB de Villiers, Shimron Hetmyer, Colin de Grandhomme, Shivam Dube, Prayas Barman, Yuzvendra Chahal, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj
SRH: David Warner, Jonny Bairstow(w), Vijay Shankar, Manish Pandey, Deepak Hooda, Yusuf Pathan, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar(c), Sandeep Sharma, Siddarth Kaul